50 species of gulls and every last one of them is a cunt.
#notaseagull
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Fucking love seagulls. Grew up at the beach, gulls everywhere. They used to dig in our trash cans and we had to put heavy weights on the lids. Still fucking love em. They’re awesome, amazing trash birds who give zero fucks. I have seen gulls fully steal food from people’s mouths. I’ve seen them sit on windshields and refuse to move so you can drive, including just allowing the wipers to fwap into them repeatedly.
Seagulls aren’t cunts. Seagulls serve cunt, and I love them for it.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
They most certainly are not. Make friends with one and they will bring you presents. ! gullfriends@lemmings.world
BluesF@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wikipedia on Larus marinus, or the great black-backed gull:
The scientific name is from Latin. Larus appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific name marinus means “marine”, or when taken together, “sea gull”.
If that’s not a seagull I don’t know what is.
Xenny@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why does a seagull fly over the sea? Because of they for over the bay they would be bagels!
This joke echoes in my brain thanks to this one PBS commercial break snippet from my childhood. You’re welcome
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I heard this joke for the first time a few weeks back on an episode of The Penguin. :D
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Achkchually, a pineapple is neither a pine, nor an apple.
It’s actually an ananananas.
azi@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Je suis un ananas
Velonie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bonjour, allô, salut!
TotalFat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure, but ananananas-pen doesn’t have quite the same ring now does it?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Do dooo do do do,
ananananas,
Do do do do
superkret@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
That anon’s name? Steven Seagullible
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
From my experience, they’re “Hanging around outside the chip shop” gulls.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No one actually loves seagulls, but that’s got nothing to do with the fact there is no seagull.
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh hey flying vermin.
10_0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now I know this, I will be crying every time I go to the ocean
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
If 90% of the population call them seagulls, and 99% of the population understand what you mean when you say “seagull”, then yes, they are actually called seagulls
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s like what I say to bother botanists:
Klear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure botanists are aware that the same word can have different meaning outside of their scientific field. The people actually bothered by this are pedants who read about it on the internet, not people who studied botany.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Well, no, there’s nothing wrong with the definition of berry, but there would be something wrong about a botanist being annoyed with someone using the colloquial definition of berry.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What if I told you that words can have different meanings in different contexts? Just because the same word can be used to refer to different things depending on whether its used in everyday or scientific speech doesn’t mean either usage is “wrong”.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.
azi@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Canada Goose
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wtf who’s beefing with starfish
Machinist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should we add an exception when it comes to technical discussions?
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
If you’re an ornithologist writing a scientific paper, you’d presumably be using a genus + species in Latin rather than any colloquial name anyway, while still acknowledging that they fall under the umbrella term “seagull” for most people. But I’m a descriptive linguist, rather than prescriptive, and that’s really what this meme is about (it’s not about seagulls)
Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Noooo then how are we going to get memes like this?